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Re: gratuitous use of echo?



 On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:18:01 -0500 
Ben Eisenbraun <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> 
> I write a lot of sh scripts that do something like this: 
> 
> FOO=`someprogramthatproducesoutput` 
> 
> and then: 
> 
> echo $FOO | awk | sed | etc 
> 
> to mangle/unmangle the string in $FOO. 
> 
> Is there a way to get at the string in $FOO without using echo? 


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